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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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PONTOON BRIDGE AT DEEP BOTTOM. cavalry on the west road, had advanced sofar as to get on the left flank of the infantrycolumn. Custer and Merrittthen turned andattacked with their cavalry, when a reporthaving spread among Rossers men that theNational infantry were at the same timeflanking them, they immediately gave wayand broke into a stampede. The pursuit wascontinued seven miles. The loss of theenemy was not great, being only about threehundred men, including prisoners; but heabandoned eleven guns, four caissons, and aoammunition train. ^U THE CIVIL WAR. Things remained quiet for several daysafter this affair; but on the twelfth, the Con-federates again appeared in the neighborhoodof Strasburg and opened an artillery fire onEmorys and Crooks corps. These troopswere then partially withdrawn and Crookpushed out a reconnoissance, which brought
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GENERAL PHIT.IP H. SHERIDAN on a smart engagement of three hours dura-tion. Night, however, closed upon the scenewithout any advantage and with little loss toeither side. On the fifteenth, Sheridan went to Wash-ington on important business, leaving thearmy under the command of General Wright, whose corps was, in the meantime, intrustedto General Ricketts. Fishers Hill had beenabandoned as not affording any good defens-ible line on its southern slope, on which sideEarly would be likely to approach, and thearmy had now lain for several days in frontof Strasburg, behind breast-works thrownup on rising and rollingground, mostly along theeast side of Cedar Creek—Crook, with the Eighthcorps on the left, the Nine-teenth corps in the centre,the Sixth on the right. Onthe right of the Sixth, alittle in the rear and inreserve, were the two cav-alry divisions of Custerand Merritt. The line wasfour or five miles long, andfollowing the course of thecreek, nearly north andSouth. Crooks corps reste

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